HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Places

那里 nàli “there” in Chinese

Traditional 那裏

What 那里 means

  1. there
  2. that place

How to say 那里

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale那nà4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own里lineutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

那里 in a sentence

  1. 那里的天气怎么样？

    Nàli de tiānqì zěnmeyàng?

    How’s the weather there?

    Sentence #8292595 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 有多少人在那里工作？

    Yǒu duōshǎo rén zài nàli gōngzuò?

    How many people work there?

    Sentence #5068212 from Tatoeba

  3. 你好！你还在那里吗？

    Nǐ hǎo! Nǐ hái zài nàli ma?

    Hello! Are you still there?

    Sentence #7767612 from Tatoeba

How 那里 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 那 (nà) drawn as one shape
那nàthat; the; those

那 is a single shape of 6 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidThe town 阝 on the right is over there: that.

The character 里 (lǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
里lǐlininglight in 那里
  • 田field · tián
  • 土earth · tǔ

Memory aidFields 田 and earth 土: a village. As a simplified character it also stands for 裏, “inside”.

How to write 那里

那 6 strokes · 里 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

那里 (nàli) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 那里 (nàli). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 那里

Words with 那

那nà · that那儿nàr · there那些nàxiē · those那个nàge · that one那边nàbian · over there那么nàme · like that那样nàyàng · that kind刹那chànà · instant

Words with 里

里lǐ · inside这里zhèlǐ · here哪里nǎlǐ · where?里面lǐmiàn · inside心里xīnlǐ · in one’s heart公里gōnglǐ · kilometre里程碑lǐchéngbēi · milestone

More words: Places & Getting Around

店diàn · shop国guó · country火车huǒchē · train那边nàbian · over there前qián · front书店shūdiàn · bookstore外边wàibian · outside这边zhèbiān · this side

FAQs

那里 (nàli) means “there” or “that place”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it nàli: nà with a 4th tone, then li with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 那里 is written 那裏. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type nali with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 那里 from the suggestions. Typing nali into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
那里 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.